The Job Search
Library.
Everything you need to run a smarter job search, built by a recruiter who has been on both sides of the desk. The whole library, one email address, no invoice. Take what you need.
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Each one is built to be filled in as you go. Start with the Diagnostic if you are not sure which one you need.
These are the starting point. For a strategy built around your specific situation, work with me 1-on-1.
Tools & Worksheets
Practical tools covering every stage of your job search, from vetting a posting before you spend an afternoon on it to tracking every offer on the table.
Start here if the whole search feels broken. Five yes/no questions about your last 30 days, answered in order. Stop at the first No and that is the one thing worth working on this month, instead of nine things you might fix. Every step explains what is actually going wrong, gives you two things to do about it, and names the resource that fixes it. Fillable, and built to run again in thirty days.
Paste your resume and the posting, and get the read a keyword screen gives it before a human sees it. Three scans: what the posting asks for that your resume never says, a line-by-line rewrite brief written against that specific posting, and an ATS-and-age check that runs on the resume alone. It all happens in your browser, so nothing is uploaded and nothing is stored. No email, no gate, so send it to anyone who needs it.
Three 30-day phases, in sequence, for the professional who is done winging it. Foundation and setup, then active search and outreach, then momentum and conversion, covering resume, LinkedIn, target company list, applications, networking, interview prep, ageism defense, and negotiation. Ends with a day-90 audit for what to change if you are still searching.
Five parts to work through fresh for every company: research on the company and the role, ten STAR answers written out, prepared responses to the six loaded ageism questions, seven questions to ask them, and a post-interview debrief you fill in within two hours while it is still sharp.
The five kinds of postings and how to tell them apart in ninety seconds: real, wired, evergreen, zombie, harvest. What each tell actually means, what a missing salary band is telling you before you speak to anyone, the four questions that expose a frozen req in the first five minutes of a screen, and a three-tier system that moves your hours to the applications that convert.
The one-page companion to the Decoder. Print one per posting, check every box that is true, total it up, and you have your answer: full treatment, twenty minutes, or skip it entirely. Two minutes now saves you an afternoon, and it ends with the four questions to ask if you do get a screen.
A six-tab spreadsheet covering applications, networking, interviews, offers, and a live dashboard that calculates your response rate and active opportunities automatically. The single source of truth for your search.
34 audit items across five sections: visibility and search, photo and banner, headline and About section, experience and skills, and activity and engagement. Every item is rated Critical, Flag, or Fix, with the specific fix written out, and a scoring guide at the end tells you what your results mean.
36 items across four sections: ATS flags that bury you before a human looks, age identifiers, formatting traps that make recruiters stop reading, and the final checks before you hit submit. Every item carries a severity rating and the specific fix, so you know exactly what is costing you interviews.
Four parts: define the target role, pull the salary ranges employers are actually posting for it into one range you can defend, set the walk-away number you will not go below, and price the full package beyond base salary. Fillable, so you can lay two offers side by side.
The 90-second answer that opens every screen and panel, and the one most people spend reciting their resume. Four timed blocks with a worked example for each, space to write your own version, and the common mistakes that lose the room before the real questions start.
The ten questions you will actually be asked, from the recruiter screen to the final panel, including how you use AI and why you are looking. Each one comes with what the interviewer is really testing, the framework for a strong answer, what not to say, and room to write your own version.
Build it before the final round and walk in already working on the problem. Your read of the role, then three phases (Diagnose, Deliver, Drive) with focus areas and proof points your manager can measure, plus how to present it in five minutes and what not to say.
Hiring language, translated from corporate to honest. Rejection phrases, interview and screening language, recruiter process-speak, and offer terms, each with what it really means and what you should do about it.
What is happening inside companies from October through January, as budgets reset and next year's hiring gets approved. A short checklist for every week and a fillable plan, so you are already in the pipeline when the January roles open.
Guides
In-depth guides that go beyond checklists. Deeper strategy, more context, more recruiter-side truth.
Start here if it just happened. Seven parts on the first 72 hours, when you will make more money-relevant decisions than in the next three months of applying, on the worst day you have had in years. What not to do on day one, what to gather before your access is cut, which severance clauses matter, which deadlines are real, and when an hour of an employment attorney's time pays for itself. It treats the layoff as the loss it is, and tells you to take a week or two off before the search starts. Ends with a fillable action sheet you complete before you sign anything.
Days 4 through 30, after the paperwork. Eight steps, starting where most advice never does: letting it be a loss, with one to two weeks off from the search to grieve, and the short list of deadlines that cannot wait while you do. Then know your runway, close out the old job, decide what you are actually looking for, rebuild your public presence, wake up your network, and protect your search. Ends with a fillable 30-day action sheet for how you are doing, your numbers, your first ten messages, and your references.
Seven sections of copy-paste prompts for the experienced professional with no tech background, covering resume tailoring, cover letters that do not read as AI-written, interview practice, company research, networking messages, and negotiation prep. Includes which tool to use for what, an honest section on what AI cannot do and where leaning on it will hurt you, and a one-page cheat sheet at the back.
Five parts on how to recognize it, document it, navigate it, and fight back strategically. Covers the coded language in job postings, the loaded interview questions with sample answers, a rejection language decoder, what to log and which patterns to watch for, how to reframe your resume, and five strategic options, including when and how to file an EEOC charge.
How to change direction without starting over. Five parts to finish before you touch your resume: inventory what you already have, identify the roles it maps to, translate what you did into what the new role needs, build the narrative that bridges the two, and run the pivot without torpedoing the search you already have in progress.
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What to do with the time between roles so your resume does not just stop at your last job. Certifications by function, from SHRM and PMP to AIRS, HubSpot, and CompTIA, plus the platforms that teach them for free, volunteering and mentoring that counts as real work, a reading list, and hobbies that keep you sane. Shows exactly how to list it all honestly, and ends with a fillable plan.
Resumes are read for results now, not duties, and most advice assumes you have a number to put on them. This is how to show results when nobody ever handed you a metric. Four steps: sort your bullets into duties and results, mine eight kinds of proof you already have, rebuild each line with one formula and worked examples, then run the defend-it test before a phone screen does it for you. Fillable.
These resources exist because the information gap between what hiring looks like from the inside and what job seekers experience on the outside is real, and expensive. Every checklist, worksheet, and guide on this page is built from what I saw across 15+ years recruiting talent for companies such as Cisco, Google, and Wells Fargo.
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